http://www.thestar.com/News/article/182861
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
What's Bourque up to now?
Link found in Bourque.com titled: Much ado about nothing, who's watching your back, Steph ?
I guess he is implying that Iggy is plotting against Dion behind the scenes?
I guess he is implying that Iggy is plotting against Dion behind the scenes?
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Simple Message to the LPC
We can whine and cry about how mean the CPC is being with these attack ads. We can point to polls that Canadians do not like them. However, they are effective because they are leaving an impression. Why else would the CPC keeps buying time on the networks?! There is so much ammunition to play with, why is the LPC laying down and taking this crap?! Dont wait for an election, get on with it now! We may not like Harper, but he is a crafty politician. Do we want them to win a majority? The CPC are nasty buggers, we have to start getting nasty right back! The election is being lost right now! All I read on the blog rolls today is a bunch of fluff. This is what Liberals should be focusing on right now!
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Going Green
Recently the company that I work for became ISO 14001 certified which is the environmental standard for industry. We went for certification simply for the fact that is what required for an automotive contract that we are in the process of attaining. However, the question remains why wouldn't we do it in any case? Well for one there was no pressure to do so. Necessity is the mother of invention as they say. Two we probably we worried about the increased scrutiny by the MOE. Three, training and finally of course money.
So the question remains why wouldn't we do it in any case and why shouldn't other companies be required to do so. Of course the oil sands and other big project and or companies are emitting a lot of bad stuff into the enviro, but what about all the small businesses and what they are emitting or throwing out or consuming?
As part of our certification our company had to create an environmental policy. It basically boiled down to those old triple R's. One was to reduce our energy consumption. Two reduce the amount that we are sending out to landfill and three reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals that we consume. Why shouldn't other small businesses be required to do the same? We have hundreds/ thousands of businesses in the area in which we are located. If you added up all the things that they might be doing on a day to day basis, how much do you think they are putting in landfill, dumping down the drain, wasting of energy such as leaving lights on at night?
The amount of money we have spent on the programs we have implemented has been maybe a few hundred dollars extra per month. For example, we now recycle all our office paper, so we had to get a couple of totes from our waste provider and they charge about $70 per pick-up every couple of weeks. However, it is not only recycling that we are required to do, but also continuous improvement such as finding ways to use less paper, finding ways to use less harmful chemicals in our manufacturing process and reducing our energy consumption by doing simple things like turning our computers off at night.
Finally, we needed to get some training on WHMIS and handling of dangerous goods. Pretty simple stuff, but I doubt a lot of small businesses are not doing these types of simple things. We also needed to register the types of wastes we are using with the environment and test what we are emitting out into the atmosphere, along with what we are putting into the sewer system.
The CPC says that we cannot meet our Kyoto targets. Horse shit! There are a lot of simple things all Canadians can do and a lot of simple things businesses can do. Require all businesses to become ISO 14001 certified or some sort of equivalent. Increase funding for monitoring and inspection of small businesses. Provide tax incentives for buying green products, such as hybrid cars. Provide incentives for reducing energy consumption.
It's not enough to for all the political parties to that they are greener than the other guy. Its not enough to go after the "big" polluters. Governments need to start looking at what smaller businesses are doing. It might be sexy to go after 'Big Oil" but that is not the whole story. Meeting Kyoto should not have to mean rolling out a bunch of grand gestures, when we already have the tools to do so. It is the will and knowledge to do so that is lacking.
So the question remains why wouldn't we do it in any case and why shouldn't other companies be required to do so. Of course the oil sands and other big project and or companies are emitting a lot of bad stuff into the enviro, but what about all the small businesses and what they are emitting or throwing out or consuming?
As part of our certification our company had to create an environmental policy. It basically boiled down to those old triple R's. One was to reduce our energy consumption. Two reduce the amount that we are sending out to landfill and three reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals that we consume. Why shouldn't other small businesses be required to do the same? We have hundreds/ thousands of businesses in the area in which we are located. If you added up all the things that they might be doing on a day to day basis, how much do you think they are putting in landfill, dumping down the drain, wasting of energy such as leaving lights on at night?
The amount of money we have spent on the programs we have implemented has been maybe a few hundred dollars extra per month. For example, we now recycle all our office paper, so we had to get a couple of totes from our waste provider and they charge about $70 per pick-up every couple of weeks. However, it is not only recycling that we are required to do, but also continuous improvement such as finding ways to use less paper, finding ways to use less harmful chemicals in our manufacturing process and reducing our energy consumption by doing simple things like turning our computers off at night.
Finally, we needed to get some training on WHMIS and handling of dangerous goods. Pretty simple stuff, but I doubt a lot of small businesses are not doing these types of simple things. We also needed to register the types of wastes we are using with the environment and test what we are emitting out into the atmosphere, along with what we are putting into the sewer system.
The CPC says that we cannot meet our Kyoto targets. Horse shit! There are a lot of simple things all Canadians can do and a lot of simple things businesses can do. Require all businesses to become ISO 14001 certified or some sort of equivalent. Increase funding for monitoring and inspection of small businesses. Provide tax incentives for buying green products, such as hybrid cars. Provide incentives for reducing energy consumption.
It's not enough to for all the political parties to that they are greener than the other guy. Its not enough to go after the "big" polluters. Governments need to start looking at what smaller businesses are doing. It might be sexy to go after 'Big Oil" but that is not the whole story. Meeting Kyoto should not have to mean rolling out a bunch of grand gestures, when we already have the tools to do so. It is the will and knowledge to do so that is lacking.
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